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The Blair Robot Project Quotes Database
"I am so trustworthy it's coming out of my ears."--Benjamin Lowenstein, a former team member
"Una is up, except, right now it's in pieces across my desk."
--Eric Van Albert, making minor changes to a troublesome laptop
"The freshmen just recieved an email with a link to a page with a link to another link to the robotics website, so you should get a lot of traffic."
--Eric Van Albert, to Scott, asking him to keep the website stable
"The drive chain is loose? Not my problem. Here, have a wrench. It might not be the right size."
--Eric Van Albert, in a rather blunt blog post
"We have since expanded our sphere of technological influence (mwahaha). "
--Eric Van Albert, on the Robotics Team as a whole
"You will read this and say, "Geez, I could come up with better fortunes than this!""
--a fortune cookie at Battle o' Baltimore. No, this is not a joke!
"What comes after Venus?"
--Scott Lawrence, playing online quiz game
"I can only hit the puck in when you're there to hit it in for me "
--Scott Lawrence, to Eric, playing air hockey, right before Eric accidentally hit the puck into his own goal
"I just added an OR statement, so it does exactly the same thing, unless you change it to false, in which case it does the first thing, which might be what we want."
"Wait. What is the first thing and what is the second thing?"
"I don't know! "
--Scott Lawrence and Chris Bodine, discussing changes made to robot code
"How can you tell that I pinged?"
"You pasted it into chat."
"Oh right""
--Scott and Eric
"Isn't the United States government technically non-profit?"
"They don't make a profit, I know that."
--Ben Shaya and Chris Bodine
"I electrocuted myself the other day. It was fun."
--Eric Van Albert
"To be fair, my printers hate me too"
"I think printers are just generally mean-spirited"
"That's ok, I bought an axe to teach it obedience. Except it still doesn't want to print."
--Freddy and Scott
"Why did I just stick a capacitor into my apple?"
--Eric Van Albert
"Nice. When you shrink the window in [Firefox] 3.5 on Windows, the website actually quivers."
"Huh, I knew that all the good features were still Windows-only."
--Scott and Freddy
"[It takes] like easily 50 times longer than linux. Its like saying 'I know you are going to boot into linux next so I'll torture you for about 15 minutes.'"
--Chester, to Scott, complaining about the Vista boot time
"ah, but openoffice might not display word stuff exactly right"
"No, word doesn't display word stuff exactly right"
--Chester and Scott, discussing why Chester dual boots
"What's a kernel module?"
--Eric Van Albert, to Scott, when discussing Quentin
"Is the webcam working?"
"No, and its not going to be for quite a while, like five minutes."
--Stephen Carlson and Scott Lawrence
"Wouldn't it be cool if cars were driven by their front wheels?"
--Kathryn Waychoff
"No, we are not opening the door, because Eric will drop those boxes on his foot - possibly damaging whatever's in the boxes."
--Fish, when openning the backroom door
"The TODO tag highlighting is disgusting. It's like, vomit."
--Lev Krayzman, talking about vim
"Welcome to Wikipedia, where pictures are actually pictures."
--Lev Krayzman
"The Java mindset does not lend itself to coding - I mean, debugging "
--Scott Lawrence, discussing debugging in Java
"If you put a black hole on a scale, it will say zero."
--Mr. Shaya
"[Hammond] can re-image if necessary, so ... in 20 years ... [if] he wants his server back, he can re-image it."
--Eric Van Albert, discussing Quentin with Scott L
"Ubuntu is better than Debian. You should install Ubuntu"
"Why don't you install linux? "
--James and Daniel, on Bus, discussing Quentin
"Wow...I'm not used to people actually seeing my mistakes..."
--Scott Lawrence
"Having a couple server farms is really nice!"
--Chester Lam
"All your CH3CH2NH2 are belong to us."
--Eli Barnett
"You are at a party and you are chatting [on GMail]! What kind of social life do you have?! Wait, who's online?"
--Jacob H., to Scott, at Team Social while Scott is working on website
"Mmmmm, chain grease and aluminum shavings..."
"The breakfast of champions!"
--Eli and Tim
"Putting safety goggles between closing elevator doors is dangerous. If you're going to do that, please wear [the] safety goggles."
--Ben Shaya
"But there's nothing safe going on in here!"
--Philip Sequeira, after being told to put on safetly goggles
"Robotics is really preparing us for jobs at NASA. Look. We're past deadline overweight, overbudget, and our [project] doesn't even work!"
--Ben Shaya
"There's a small bug in my password changing script: it won't change the password unless the new password is the same as the old one."
--Scott Lawrence, while working on the website
"No, you are not going to hang a target over my head!"
--Scott Lawrence, when the shooter was about to be tested
"The harvester almost harvests, the shooter almost shoots, the robot almost drives, and the code almost compiles!"
--Ben Shaya, in describing the progress made on the robot
"Why are you not at robotics?"
--Ben Shaya
"It thinks the command key is being held down."
"The printer's on the keyboard!"
--Stephen C. and Scott Lawrence, when trying to connect to Quentin through VNC
"Oh no no our robot isn't done..."
--The Whole Team